Saturday, November 15, 2014

Soap Challenge Club - Combing Techniques

I was really excited to participate in
this month's soap challenge, because combing techniques produce such beautiful
swirls. Besides, I love to learn
new techniques, and I had so much fun with this one! I made my soap comb with
cardboard and bamboo skewers. I prepared 6 different colors of mica plus some
titanium dioxide.

In marbling, this is called a
Nonpareil pattern (nonpareil means “without equal” or unique in French).
To make it, you have to take your comb and draw it gently through
the soap batter from left to right.

This is a Chevron pattern, made by bisecting the lines
exactly in the reverse direction:

Finally, I took my wide-spaced comb to make a wavy
pattern:

Here is the resulting look of my soap while it's still in the mold:

This soap is scented with Brambleberry’s Sensuous
Sandalwood - a very nice, sexy, woodsy smell. I love it!

I’m really pleased with how the soap turned out, and believe
the earthy colours match the scent perfectly. Thank
you Amy for the challenge, I want to play with this technique more!

10 comments:

Your swirls are so wispy and beautiful!! I'm curious how you laid the soap down in the mold before you swirled it, because it doesn't look like straight lines - the pattern is even more intriguing this way!

Thank you very much Amy! You’re right, I poured the colors in no particular pattern. A few days before making the Sensuous Sandalwood soap, I made another batch where I played with different ways of pouring the colored batter. I took some pictures, so tonight or tomorrow I will create another blog post about it.